UK aid provided life-saving assistance, including food, water, medical care and shelter to millions of people desperately in need in 2018.
During 2018, UK aid responded to crises across the globe including:
- sending 47 tonnes of aid and a team of aid workers to Indonesia following a devastating earthquake and tsunami which is believed to have left over 2,000 people dead;
- deploying a team of 67, including 57 medics, to Bangladesh to tackle an outbreak of diphtheria in Cox’s Bazar, after hundreds of thousands of displaced Rohingya had fled there;
- supporting the development of a life-saving vaccine to tackle Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which has helped to prevent it from spreading to neighboring countries;
- meeting the immediate food needs of 4 million Yemenis, and supporting aid agencies to screen and treat for malnutrition and disease.
Original source: DFID
Published on 3 January 2019
